Russia’s military has thwarted the third attack on its airbase in Syria in the past week, Russian news agencies have reported. The attacks took place as Russia’s ally Syria said last week it was resuming military operations in a Russian-led campaign in Idlib, blaming Turkey for not...

Some Syrian students who took and passed the Brevet and Baccalaureate exams this year have been barred from collecting their certificates because they do not have legal residency papers. Proof of legal residency is not a requirement for refugee children to enroll in Lebanese public schools or...

Regime army has captured a strategically important town in Idlib in the rebels’ last major enclave, a war monitor and a military media unit run by its ally Hezbollah reported on Sunday. The capture of al-Hobeit represents the most significant advance the army has made in Idlib province...

Leaning over his sewing machine in the workshop of the small Berlin-based company called mimycri, Khaldoun Alhussain concentrates as he stitches a piece of grey rubber. A border of yellow thread takes shape on the material that he works with an expert hand. The grey material...

 (Zaman Al Wasl- Photos)- It took more than five years for Amina al-Mulhim to meet her children on Friday in Istanbul who fled the war-torn country to Turkey. The partially sighted woman, who sits on a wheelchair, had been released from Damascus (Adra) Central Prison after...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Everything in the Zaatari refugee camp at the Jordanian border is yellow and gloomy, the sand and tents, and the people’s exhausted faces. Only the graffiti of the Syrian artist Mohamed Jokhadar that decorate the makeshifts shelters, in try to create joy and bringing hope....

One civilian was killed and six others were injured in a bomb blast Saturday in Syria's northern city of Azaz, according to local sources.  A bomb-laden motorbike exploded in the city center, killing one person and injuring six others, said the sources, who spoke anonymously due to...

Clashes between regime loyalists and militants in northwest Syria killed 55 combatants Saturday, as regime forces continued to nibble away at territory held by its opponents, an activist group said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a militant group led by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate, has...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 110 displaced people, including women and children, have left the Kurdish-run al-Hol camp in northeast Syria, heading to their hometowns in Deir Ezzor province, activist told Zaman al-Wasl Saturday. Saturday’s transfer follows an agreement brokered by the Kurdish...

Syrian activists and family members of a pro-government journalist say he's been released after being detained and held incommunicado for eight months. The brother of Wissam al-Teer thanked Syria's President Bashar Assad in a Facebook post Saturday for the release, in apparent reference to...

Turkish government plans to relocate 700,000 Syrians in Turkey to the territories it aims to seize from the U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in northern Syria, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The government has stepped up measures against refugee population in Turkey, after the ruling...

(Zaman Al Wasl)-  “Like sheep to the slaughter,” one young man likens his return to the north of Syria after being deported from Turkey. The terrifying paradox in the Syrian case is their fear for their lives knowing their inevitable return to their country; so unlike all the...

A week after Syria’s governemnt agreed to a cease-fire with rebel groups affecting the northwestern province of Idlib, air force jets hit multiple targets on Friday, humanitarian workers said, fueling international fears for millions of civilians crammed into the area. By early afternoon,...

Russia on Friday accused the UN of providing "false data" on the coordinates of civilian sites in Syria's Idlib, as outrage rises over the apparent bombardment of schools and hospitals in the area. The jihadist-run bastion of Idlib, the last major opposition stronghold in Syria, has faced...

Turkey says Kurdish fighters have attacked a Turkish base in a Turkish-controlled area in northern Syria, wounding two of its soldiers. Turkey's Defense Ministry says fighters of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, attacked the base in Afrin with an anti-tank missile...

Russia hopes that an agreement can be reached soon under U.N. auspices on forming Syria’s new constitutional committee and that it can convene in Geneva as early as September, Moscow’s ambassador Gennady Gatilov said on Friday. Gatilov, speaking at a Geneva news briefing, said that he...

A Canadian citizen held in Syria since last year was released in Lebanon on Friday and broke down in tears at a news conference, saying he thought he would be held forever. Kristian Lee Baxter, who was detained in Syria last year, appeared alongside Lebanese security chief Abbas Ibrahim,...

At least four civilians were killed in Russian airstrikes Thursday in a de-escalation zone in northern Syria, according to sources with the White Helmets civil defense agency. Three people were killed in the Khan Sheikhoun district of Idlib, and one in Latmeen village in Hama’s countryside,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Lebanese authorities have demolished the Rihanya camp north of Akkar province on Thursday, leaving about 1500 people stranded, few days before the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday Lebanon has been ordered to demolish about 4,000 hard shelters, which the authorities...

“My future is destroyed,” said Hani Hilal, lamenting his deportation order on July 10 from Turkey to northern Syria. The 27-year-old was among the 1,000 Syrian men who recently received deportation orders from the Turkish government. Like many other Syrian refugees, he holds kimlik...